Julius simon



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J. SIMON. SHIRT 0R SHIRT WAIST.

No. 327,329. Patented Sept. 29, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PA ENT OFFICE.

JULIUS SIMON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT OR SHIRT-WAIST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,329, datedSeptember 29 1885 Application filed March 19, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUs SIMON, of the city and county of New York, inthe State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inShirts and Shirt-\Vaists, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to woolen shirts,such as are commonly known asyachting-shirts or lawn-tennis shirts, and also to shirt-waists made ofanalogous material. Such shirts and shirt waists are commonly providedwith broad collars which lie on the exterior of the garment over theshoulders.

My invention consists in a shirt or shirtwaist comprising thecombination of front portions, to which the collar is permanentlyattached, which are always visible at the exterior of the shirt orwaist, and which are provided with eyeletholes, lacing-cord repeatedlypassed over and over through the eyeletholes in said front portions,without connecting the front portions, and hooks and eyes or otherdevices for connecting the front portions, the lacing-cord being alwaysvisible, whether the front portions are unattached or connected by theirconnecting devices.

The invention also consists in the combina tion, with the foregoing, offlaps or flies secured inside the external front portions, which areprovided with eyelet-holes and lacingcord, and provided with devices forconnect ing the flaps or flies when it is desired to throw open or leaveunattached the said front portions in which are the eyelet-holes andlacing-cord, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of a shirt embodyingmyinvention, the front being closed by the flies, and the external frontportions in which are the eyelets and lacings being thrown open; andFig. 2 represents a shirt-waist also embodying my invention, the frontbeing closed by the flies, and the external front portions, in which arethe eyelets and laeings, being thrown open.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

A A designate the two front portions of the shirt or shirt-waist, whichare on the exterior of the garment or which form part of the exteriorthereof said portions always being exposed to View, whether the shirt isworn open or closed. In the shirt the portions or sides (No model.)

A A extend down to the point a; but below that point the shirt isclosed. In the shirtwaist said portions extend from top to bottom, and abelt, B, is provided.

In both examples of the invention a collar is permanently attached tothe front portions, A A, and I have here shown a broad collar, 0, whichwill be made of the same woolen or other material as the shirt orshirt-waist.

Near their edges the portions A A are provided with eyelet-holes b, inwhich the two portions of a lacing-cord, D D, are separately secured bypassing them over and over and through the eyelet-holes.

I11 a shirt-waist in which the portions A A extend from top to bottomthe lacing-cords D D would be independent of each other. The lacingcordsD do not serve to secure the pertions A A to close the front of theshirt or waist, but means independent of them are provided for thispurpose. I have here shown hooks and eyes 0 c for closing the front,when desired, and one or two hooks and eyes only are necessary.

When it is desired to connect A A to close the front of the shirt orwaist, the hooks-and eyes 0 c are used, and the end portions oflacingeord are tied together; and when it is desired to have the frontportions, A A, thrown open the lacing-cords are untied and left free, asshown in the drawings, and the hooks c are released.

I have here represented the front portions, A A, as provided with narrowflaps or flies E E, which may be stitched to the inner sides thereof andconnected by one or more buttons, d, or other fastening devices. If theshirt or waist be provided with inner flaps or flies E, they areintended to be always buttoned or connected, whether the front portions,A A, are connected or unattached, and it will be understood that thelacing D is always visible, whether the portions A A be connected orunattached.

In my Letters Patent No. 294,921, granted March 11, 1884, is shown anddescribed a shirt having attached to the inside of the two frontportions two false-front portions which have eyelets in the edges, andwhich have lacingcords separately passed over and over and through theeyelet-holes in the two sides, and

hooks and eyes independent of the lacing-cords shown in my formerpatent; but

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

In a shirt or shirt-waist, the combination of the front portions, A A,provided with eyeletholes I), the collar 0, permanently attached to saidfront portions, lacing-cord D, separately passed over and over throughthe eyelet-holes in such front portions without connecting them, anddevices, as hooks and eyes 0 0, for connecting said front portionstogether, the lacing-cord being always visible at the front of thegarment, whether the front portions are unattached or connected,substantially as herein described.

JULIUS SIMON.

Witnesses:

(3. HALL, FREDK. HAYNEs.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 327,329.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 327,329, grantedSeptember 29, l npon the application of Julius Simon, of New York, NewYork, for an improvemen Shirts or Shirt-waists, an error appears in theprinted specification requiring following correction: Lines 27 to 35inclusive should be stricken out; and that the Letters Patent should beread Withthis correction therein that the same may cont to the record ofthe case in the Patent Oflice.

1 Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 13th day of October, A. D.1885.

H. L. MULDROW, Acting Secretary of theInte [SEAL] Oountersigned r M. V.MONTGOMERY,

Commissioner of Patents.

